In "I am never going to sneer at you for feeling ill" news

[kaberett]

Colds. I hate them. I hate my head being full of snot. I hate my balance vanishing. I hate not being able to hear, and the pressure that goes with it. I hate needing to sleep so much more than my baseline.

I hate colds much, much more than I hate any other aspect of my illnesses.

I'm never interested in playing the Who's More Ill game, or the I'm Iller Than You So Count Your Blessings game, and this is some of why: colds are fucking miserable.

For the purposes of this post I'm pretending that the anxiety creature is throwing a tantrum about sneezing.

Comments

chicken soup

[untonuggan]

not the default sick food of the world - in the middle east, or at least parts of it, the default sick food is spices and lamb and rice and a special kind of squash marketed in the US as "cousa" which is how you say "squash" in Arabic. My partner makes the dish for me when I am sick, whether I want it or not, and makes me eat it. Also the default "upset stomach food" is rice and yogurt, which makes sense when you think about it I suppose. That one I refuse to eat, though, bc dairy, but I probably will try it next time. I dunno though.